John Marin
American, 1870-1953
New York with View of the Flatiron Building
INV-2908
John Marin
American, 1870-19531910
New York with View of the Flatiron Building
John Marin American, 1870-1953 →watercolordrawings (visual works)
Date
1910
Medium
Watercolor with graphite on lightweight, smooth, cream wove paper, discolored to tan, laid down on white wove card (top and lower edges trimmed)
Dimensions
33.9 × 25.4 cm (13 3/8 × 10 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
This lively work painted over a graphite sketch is a view looking down Broadway to the Flatiron Building at the corner of Twenty-Third Street and Fifth Avenue. The tall, narrow structure, seven blocks from Stieglitz’s gallery 291, was also the subject of photographs by Marin’s friends Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. This sheet demonstrates Marin’s increasingly fluid handling of paint, particularly where he pulled his brush, loaded with blue wash, around the tops of the buildings. Tilting the paper upright, he allowed the watercolor to pool at the end of each stroke, creating a vibrant pattern of gradating tone.
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